+#ifdef __WIN32__
+ // on windows, we want to translate away from any cygwin or msys format into a more palatable
+ // version that the rest of windows understands.
+ // first, cygwin...
+//hmmm: make these into statics!
+ const astring CYGDRIVE_SENTINEL = "cygdrive";
+ const astring CYGDRIVE_PATH = astring(astring(DEFAULT_SEPARATOR, 1)
+ + CYGDRIVE_SENTINEL + astring(DEFAULT_SEPARATOR, 1));
+
+ // must be at least as long as the string we're looking for, plus a drive letter afterwards.
+ if ( (length() >= CYGDRIVE_PATH.length() + 1)
+ && separator(get(0))
+ && separator(get(CYGDRIVE_PATH.length() - 1))
+ && compare(CYGDRIVE_SENTINEL, 1,
+ 0, CYGDRIVE_SENTINEL.length(), true) ) {
+ zap(0, CYGDRIVE_PATH.length() - 1); // whack the cygdrive portion plus two slashes.
+ insert(1, ":"); // add a colon after the imputed drive letter.
+//LOG(astring("turned cygdrive path string into: ") + *this);
+ } else {
+//LOG(astring("path didn't match so left as: ") + *this);
+ }
+
+ // now we convert msys...
+ if ( (length() >= 2) && (get(0) == DEFAULT_SEPARATOR)
+ && textual::parser_bits::is_alpha(get(1)) ) {
+ // we seem reasonably sure now that this is a windows path hiding in msys format, but
+ // the next character needs to be a slash (if there is a next character) for it to be
+ // the windows drive form. otherwise it could be /tmp, which would obviously not be
+ // intended as a windows path.
+ if ( (length() == 2) || (get(2) == DEFAULT_SEPARATOR) ) {
+ // cool, this should be interpretable as an msys path, except for those wacky types
+ // of folks that might use a top-level single character directory name. we cannot
+ // help them, because we have made a design decision to support msys-style paths.
+ // note that this would only affect someone if they were referring to their directory on
+ // the current windows partition (c:, d:, etc.) without providing the drive letter,
+ // if they had that single character directory name (e.g., c:\x, d:\q, etc.) and even
+ // then only on the near defunct windows platform.
+ zap(0, 0); // take off initial slash.
+ insert(1, ":"); // add the obligatory colon.
+//LOG(astring("turned msys string into: ") + *this);
+ }
+ }
+
+ // if we still have a unix style path here on windows, then there will be
+ // trouble when we pass that to the OS. we are not using any cygwin or
+ // other virtualization libraries directly, so we can't rely on those to
+ // fix the path. but if we built under something like cygwin, we should
+ // have stored the real dos-style location of the virtual unix root. we
+ // will use that to replace the root '/' and this should fix most of that
+ // style of path.
+ bool inject_root = false; // assume we don't need to do anything.
+
+//LOG(astring("before root injection: ") + raw());
+
+ // condition here just checks if the path is only the root.
+ if ( (length() == 1) && separator(get(0)) ) { inject_root = true; }
+
+//if (inject_root) LOG("decided to inject root since path is '/'.");
+
+ // condition is looking for first character being a slash, and second char as alphanumeric or dash or underscore.
+ // we will currently fail detecting freaky paths that don't start off with alphanumeric or one of that small set of special chars.
+ if ( (length() >= 2)
+ && separator(get(0))
+ && ( textual::parser_bits::is_alphanumeric(get(1)) || ('-' == get(1)) || ('_' == get(1)) ) ) {
+ inject_root = true;
+//if (inject_root) LOG(astring("decided to inject root since path is compatible: ") + *this);
+ }
+
+//LOG(astring("after second phase root injection: ") + raw());
+
+ if (inject_root) {
+ // inject the actual path to the unix root in front, if we know it.
+ // if we don't know it, then a default path that's unlikely to work is idiotically plugged in.
+ insert(0, FEISTY_MEOW_VIRTUAL_UNIX_ROOT);
+//LOG(astring("turned cygdrive path string into: ") + raw());
+ }
+#endif
+